Quan's Random Stories

我的老师与我

2010-05-12T15:23:00.000+08:00

希望你不觉得这是一种自夸，但我常觉得自己没有从别人分享上帝话语的时候学习到什么东西。常常主日崇拜结束后就忘了牧师讲了什么，不然常感到不耐烦别人只是从字面解释圣经，或者用很简单的reasoning来加以解释。

这一年来我从唐牧师的查经里学了许多。几乎每一次查经后常常带着一份感动回家，学了的东西没有离开我的记忆。这些学习不只是带给了我知识，也塑造了我成为勇敢的见证人为真理做见证。

唐牧师不知道有我这个学生，但我常认为我有这个老师。

                如果你没去唐牧师星期一的查经班，你应该去的。
                可能你去过，但是听不懂，不要那么快放弃。上帝会给你聪明，你要继续去，慢慢的学习。
                如果你是常常分享上帝话语的人，你要好好的考究上帝的话语。要思考，要深入的了解，要好好买些注释来读，要把圣经的精华和甜味都慢慢长时间的煲出来，那么吃的人就觉得很好吃，很喜欢吃。你在上帝面前也可以做无愧的仆人。

荣耀单单归给全能神。

Some Unanswered Q & As.

2010-04-24T19:12:00.000+08:00

根据你的Experience，你怎样知道神要你在哪一个Christian Fellowship服事？

我想在选择团契时有几点是我们需要考虑的：

1. 这个是不是有传福音的团契？

上帝设立团契和教会的目的之一是要传福音。所以不传福音的团契和教会是一个瘸腿的团契和教会，不传福音的基督徒也是半残废的基督徒。为什么说瘸腿，为什么说残废呢？因为本来应该有的功用没有用，这就是一种残废了。但是不论你在传福音或不传福音的团契里，你都应该传福音。但是在传福音的团契里，有人与你同工，有人与你有同样的负担，有人愿意和你为福音的工作付出同样的劳苦，我想对你来说是更加的好的。

2. 这个团契有没有忠于上帝的话语？

上帝的话语是信仰的基本，但是很多团契玩游戏和破冰的时间和祷告加上查经的时间差不多一样多。最基本的是，这个团契不应有异端的教导。接着，应该看重圣经的话语，而不是“越少圣经越好”。提摩太后书3：16-17说：圣经都是神所默示的，于教训、督责、使人归正、教导人学义都是有益的，叫属神的人得以完全，预备行各样的善事。

这经节告诉我们，我们要学习公义，走正直的道路，要成为完全，被装备，我们需要的是上帝话语。在一个看重上帝话语的团契里，能帮助我们这样子的成长。

你怀疑过你所信的吗？

曾经有对上帝的信心动摇过吗？

如果有，怎么才能克服呢？

有的。我也曾经怀疑过这位上帝是不是完全的可靠，这位上帝是不是完全的信实和慈爱。但是能够克服怀疑的，就是相信。能够克服不信的，就是信心。希伯来书12：1-2说：

12:1 我们既有这许多的见证人，如同云彩围着我们，就当放下各样的重担，脱去容易缠累我们的罪，存心忍耐，奔那摆在我们前头的路程，

12:2 仰望为我们信心创始成终的耶稣。 （或作仰望那将真道创始成终的耶稣）他因那摆在前面的喜乐，就轻看羞辱，忍受了十字架的苦难，便坐在神宝座的右边。

我们要了解一个事实：我们的信心是由耶稣创始成终的。什么是创始成终？就是这个信心是耶稣在我们里面栽种的，这份信心耶稣也会完成它。大卫在诗篇23：1-3节说：

23:1 耶和华是我的牧者。我必不至缺乏。

23:2 他使我躺卧在青草地上，领我在可安歇的水边。

23:3 他使我的灵魂苏醒， 为自己的名引导我走义路。

上帝的名是什么？上帝的名是公义，上帝的名是信实。为着他自己的公义和信实，他要引导我们走这条基督徒十字架的道路。这里告诉了我们一个重要的信息，基督徒不是靠自己的力量过基督徒的生活，但是我们要靠着主的力量保守这份信心，走这条义路。如果靠着自己，我们不能做什么。保罗也在腓立比书4：4说：要靠主常常喜乐。

你的信心软弱吗？你要倚靠主。要如何倚靠主？你要好好祷告，谦卑在主面前承认你的软弱，求主的帮助。主是信实的，他必定会帮助你。

在很多年前，我发现自己很难全心相信圣经的应许，圣经的话语。我一直祷告求主，教导我怎么样相信。有一天我读经的时候，上帝从圣经向我说话，在约翰福音11章里讲到拉撒路从死里复活的事迹：

11:38 耶稣又心里悲叹，来到坟墓前。那坟墓是个洞，有一块石头挡着。

11:39 耶稣说，你们把石头挪开。那死人的姐姐马大对他说，主阿，他现在必是臭了，因为他死了已经四天了。

11:40 耶稣说，我不是对你说过，你若信，就必看见神的荣耀吗？

这句话深深的打入我的心里。那时我不知道要怎样相信，但我想，我就要这样相信了。上帝让我看见他如何在我信心的回应里彰显他的能力和荣耀，我心里得到了非常大的安慰和肯定。世界的制度是要看见了才相信，要得着了才给。但是上帝要我们给了才得着，相信了才看见。

“不要疑惑，只要信” ～约翰福音20：27

你有随波逐浪吗？

如果没有，

那如何和身边的朋友保持友好的关系？

和我亲近的朋友都知道我对于一些原则是很坚持的，但是在我的记忆里没有人因为这样而讨厌我。我想真正的朋友，就算他不是基督徒，他不会因为我需要坚持的公义离弃我们。但是是否有因为公义的缘故而造成关系的紧张和破裂呢？有的。有时发生在朋友当中，有时发生在家人中，尤其是不信主的家人。我要你看马太福音的一段经文：

10:34 你们不要想我来，是叫地上太平。我来并不是叫地上太平，乃是叫地上动刀兵。

10:35 因为我来，是叫人与父亲生疏，女儿与母亲生疏，媳妇与婆婆生疏。

10:36 人的仇敌，就是自己家里的人。

为什么耶稣这样说话？耶稣不是来带给我们正真的喜乐平安吗？你再读下去。

10:37 爱父母过于爱我的，不配作我的门徒，爱儿女过于爱我的，不配作我的门徒。

10:38 不背着他的十字架跟从我的，也不配作我的门徒。

这段经文要告诉我们什么？耶稣已经告诉我们，有时我们为了遵行他的道路，我们可能会与别人产生紧张和破裂的关系。回到问题：“我们要如何与其他人保持友好的关系？”我们其实就只要做我们自己就好了。圣经从许多信心伟人的生平告诉我们，谨守遵行上帝诫命的人都是被人特别喜爱的（约瑟，大卫，耶稣，使徒行传2章里的信徒），包括非基督徒。但是如果在公义和友好的关系之间我们要做选择时，我们要牺牲这份友好的关系，不然如经上所说，我们不配做主的门徒。

那么我们就在生命里就多了敌人了吗？你不要害怕，圣经还给了我们一个美好的应许。箴言说：

16:7 人所行的若蒙耶和华喜悦，耶和华也使他的仇敌与他和好。

如果你为了主牺牲了亲近的关系，你要喜乐，你的赏赐是大的。你要祷告，求主挽回这个破裂的关系。你要继续维持你的公义，上帝喜悦你，上帝要赐福给你。

你为什么戴戒指？

在我第二年大学结束后的长假时，我在一间购物中心楼上的办公楼做工。有一天我逛街时，我发现了这一个档口能够在许多硬的物体上刻字。我在那里选了一个设计最简单的戒指，要那个人在戒指的内外侧两边刻上一些字。外侧刻的是耶利米书31：3-

31:3 古时（或作从远方）耶和华向以色列（原文作我）显现，说， 我以永远的爱爱你，因此我以慈爱吸引你。

我要常常提醒自己上帝的爱，不要伤主的心。在失败和因软弱跌到时，要快快站起来，因为神已经用永远的爱来爱我。

内侧刻的是弥迦书6：8-

6:8 世人哪，耶和华已指示你何为善。他向你所要的是什么呢？只要你 行公义，好怜悯，存谦卑的心，与你的神同行。

这经节提醒自己这是我一生主向我要求的四样要求，也是我一生要尽力在每一天要做的四样事情。

你可能想：这么样好的动机，为什么不和大家分享呢？可能很多人会误会这和我的感情世界有关。很多时候我想人散播信息的方式是高举人，抹杀了上帝许多的荣耀。如果人知道，就常常会传扬我有多么好，多么“圣洁”。如果圣洁就不必戴了，但我常常在许多方面亏欠主，我需要更多和更大的提醒。

那么今天我为什么我告诉你呢？今天告诉你是因为我要高举神，抹杀人的作为。这世上本来没有义人，但是是上帝的恩典我们得救，改变。我本来没有什么好让你学习，但我愿你学习我的心志，看见自己的亏欠就愿意自己一生要竭力追求圣洁，公义和谦卑。愿上帝赐福你。

Father, I thank you...

2010-01-23T23:24:00.000+08:00

I thank God for giving this Nokia EM 5800 to me. In fact, I didn't spend a cent on it(nor my family). It has been a great helper and saved me lots of my time.
All glory to God. :)

All these loops are made with my phone :)

Download here.

New Year Resolutions

2010-01-10T19:45:00.001+08:00

1. Finish Bible for another time.
2. Memorize 500 Scriptures.
3. To build a persistent and quality prayer life, giving all glories, thanks, petitions and burdens to Him.
4. To do more personal evangelism.
5. To be able to expose Word of God better.
6. To overpower my laziness, sleepiness, indiscipline and lust.
7. Preparation for upcoming ministry.
8. Build CLC2u.com to be a great site.
9. Read His Words carefully and listen to what He wants to speak to me.
10. Intercede for others.
11. Better English proficiency.
12. To cook better
13. To save money and have savings
14. Do better in graphics design.
15. Publish 3 songs.
16. Learn sight-reading.
17. To improve in singing, pitching and breathing.
18. Play better guitar.
19. Healthy lifestyle.
20. Better relationship with family members.
21. To be good in VB/VC# programming.
22. Basic animation with Blender/Synfig.

Study Week Devotions

2009-10-28T00:10:00.003+08:00

They are willing to spend time in their study week to come for devotions together! :)

Daniel and His Friends - Not conforming to the world in your workplace
MP3 Part 1 MP3 Part 2 Material in PDF

Romance - The Fear God Approach
MP3 Part 1 MP3 Part 2 Material in PDF

Satan - Know his identity, his power, and his tricks!
MP3 Material in PDF

Prayer
MP3 Material in PDF

Sharing Gospel
MP3 Material in PDF

We still have our Exam Week Devotion if you wanna join.
By the way if there is any mistake with the links above let me know.
I am sure there are things that I was unclear in explanation, and it might have caused you some doubts and question marks. Don't hesitate to question and ask.
I read a lot before preparing devotion. Don't be shy to ask for my references, they are mostly commentaries in public domain, which is free.

God bless!

A Special Speech

2009-05-07T04:07:00.005+08:00

Thanks everyone.

22 years, it has not been easy. As I recall the past, shadows of bad experiences and partnership, discouragements, shames and hurts, are often what I think of. But God is faithful, and God is good!
If it wasn't because of God, today I could be someone detestable to everyone around me, probably a criminal in jail, yea I'm serious, I was a total jerk. (I think I still somehow possess some characteristics of that, ugh)
And if it wasn't because of God, I couldn't have hold on to God, to His blessings until today.
These are really long stories, and I don't think language is sufficient to express my gratitude to Him.

Also, I apologize to all of you. I am sure I give a lot of cold responses and cold shoulders. Forgive me I hope you will my friends. They are unintentional, and you know I love you ladies and gentlemen so much with the love of God.

And nevertheless,

Thanks, mum and dad.

Thanks, sisters. You are lovely noobs.

Thanks Angie, for your messages and your call.

Thanks Melia, Shi Hui, Pooi San, Jessalyn, Evelyn, Wei Seong, Chieo Ti, Eu Wei, Sook Cheng, Sook Yeen, Col Ping, Sean, Fui Peng, Callie, Kien You, Daniel and William for your text messages.

Thanks Carmen and Kar Yee, for calling me! Was a suprise!

Thanks Rong En, for remembering and your call.

Thanks to Choon Haw, Su Yen, and Huai Hoong for dropping me a Facebook message hehe.

Thanks, Dom, Ye Hean, Jim, Hean Hui, KT, Lim and TC (Shi Pei & Steven as well) for the celebration. Love you boys and girls.

Thanks, Daniel, James, David, Payshen, Hui Yie, Esther, Mee Ling, Sue Yee, Irene, Wen Yee, Bok Wan, Alan, Yseng, Hui Shan, Liyin, Fay, Ying Yee, Siaw Wei and Sing Chin for your time in 7 wonders. Special thanks to James for organizing. Love you guys.
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And my dear little princess...uuhm...thank you. Love.

I thank God, again, yet not enough. God is real, and He is so good.

Cheers ~
Quan.

Any suggestion?

2009-03-05T15:18:00.005+08:00

Hai people
In May, I'll be sharing testimony (about the love and faithfulness of God in my life ) in a few musical evangelism events in Johor Bahru.

So either after or before my testimony, there'll be a solo from me (yes a solo, which means even a small mistake will be obvious!...And the worst thing is, I ain't a good singer).

Well, of course the song, indirectly or directly, has to be related to my testimony.

A few examples:

隐形的翅膀 ("Invisible Wing") - I sang that last year to encourage and to affirm people that God is our invisible wing to help us to overcome difficulties in life.

我要快乐 ("I Want Happiness") - Was thinking about this song for this year. The lyrics talk about the unhappiness in our lives that we hide with fake laughters and smiles. I wish to tell the people : No one understands us like God does, and He sees the tears in our hearts, and He is always there to hear our prayers and cries, and to help, if we are willing to come to Him, and we are able to do that without putting up our masks, or hiding anything.

Maybe you can give me more suggestions?
Christian or non-Christian songs, Malay or English or Chinese songs, Pop or Oldies...
Since I don't really listen to music a lot, I guess you might be able to come up with something better :)

Put your suggestion(s) in comments or chatbox.
Thanks!

Jesus really does love and care for you!

Now everyone can feel loved!

2009-02-25T17:51:00.010+08:00

I'm a Christian, I believe in God.
Many has asked me, "Does your God speak to you?"

Many years back when I was still in secondary school, when I was around 15 years old I guess, there was a time that I always asked God to let me understand His love.
I told God i know that He died on the cross for my sin, to save my life, to give me an abundant life. I believe that with no doubt, but I told God honestly I couldn't understand that from deep within my heart, and I couldn't feel that love in a "real" way.
So at that time almost everyday, I prayed and asked God to show me His love, let me understand it not only by knowledge, but in my heart as well.

Then, there was one morning, I went to school like usual. Two things you would hate about my school are : 1. every student (boys or girls) has to wear tie ; 2. we have morning assembly everyday. So that morning as usual we were lining up class by class. While waiting for the assembly to start, I was just lazing around and I saw this young man without a tie, which means, most probably he would be caught and be brought up to the stage later, and then caned (kena rotan) in front of every student in the morning session.

I actually know that guy a little bit. He was my neighbour, his father actually left him and his mum, and worse, he actually has some mental problems. Well, I'm sorry I really don't know if I can call that mental problems, he somehow speaks fluent English, He did quite well in academic, but he definitely had abnormal gestures, the way he responded to questions were sometimes weird, and he had quite some records of exposing private part to classmates.

At that moment, looking at him, my heart was really filled with sympathy. I was reminded of everything that had happened to his family, and often saw him teased and bullied by others, and now he might be getting a painful punishment for forgetting his tie.

There was then a strong urge in my heart telling me :

"Give your tie to him."

"No," I told God in my heart.

"Why should I?"

"He deserves to be caned because he forgot. I don't have to give my tie to him. I might be caned if there is a spot check like usual"

(I mentioned "strong urge", because I knew God was the one who urged me.)

"Give your tie to him so he doesn't get caned." My heart was again urged.

"No, I can't do that" I told myself again, and I told God.

I was a respectable and famous student in the school. I couldn't imagine how people will look at me if I were to stand on the stage and be punished.

I struggled for a while there, being urged over and over again, and i kept rejecting that feeling.

That was such an uncomfortable feeling.

God then spoke to me.

"The love of God is - Jesus gave the tie to him"

I couldn't describe with words, really, how struck I felt to hear that.

I knew what God wanted to tell me.

When Jesus was on Earth, He saw me (and you) in sin, in bondages and in unhappiness, just like what that guy is in my eyes. He had done nothing wrong, but He gave His righteousness to me, and all humans, eventhough I (we) didn't know Him and probably had rebeled against Him. And in the end He had to suffer, died on the cross for the mistakes and sins of humans.
He didn't have to do that, moreover He was a respectable God-sent teacher in all Judea, throughout the land of Israel. I thought I was totally justified, I didn't deserve any punishment like that, and I didn't want my "good" reputation in the school to be tarnished, Jesus could have thought like that, but He didn't. No one deserves His sacrifice at all, but He was willing to carry the sins and be punished, be sentenced to death in front of so many people, eventhough He was far more justified than I was, far more reputable than I was.
It was so shameful as you can imagine, but He chose to do that so you and I can be freed.

"This is the love of God."
These words kept spinning in my heart.

And at that time, my heart couldn't stop trembling to have known this love, the unconditional sacrificial love of Jesus in a way that I had never known before.

You probably wanna ask, is that a hearable (can be heard with ears) voice.
There are incidents in the Bible mentioning about God speaking with hearable voice, but when I said God speaks to my heart, i didn't hear any voice, but it's like a message impressed deep within me, that God is telling me this.
It isn't my imagination, and don't worry friends, I am totally sane. Even the Words of God say in John 10:27 : My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

Airasia says now everyone can fly.
I say, now everyone can feel loved!

for Jesus didn't die only for Christians, Jesus died for all humans, because of His love for each of us. And the most important thing is, He resurrected 3 days after, and He still lives today to give His love and hope to us.

I didn't make the story up, it's real, if you know me good enough i know you'll believe me.

Now everyone can feel loved....

...all due to Jesus!

Money

2009-02-08T20:26:00.005+08:00

Well on my first post I said I created this blog to share, to entertain and to educate.
Let's do the education today.

I would like to introduce to you 2 sites:
http://bankinginfo.com.my

http://www.insuranceinfo.com.my/

Both of the sites are part of the Consumer Education Programme (CEP).

There are really a lot of useful information about banking and insurance stuff, and most improtantly, the information given comes with an objective to educate, rather than with the intention to gain (potential) benefits/profits from the visitors/readers.

You might be thinking...where to start?

I'll just name some interesting stuff:
1. comparative tables (between all banks) of housing loans, fixed deposit accounts blablabla
2. What are the requirements to become a guarantor? / What are the possible consequences of becoming a guarantor?
3. financial calculator to calculate stuff like your monthly installments, interest rate blabla
or
budget calculator to help you in financial planning
4. what you must know when dealing with intermediaries (insurance agents/broker/financial adviser) to ensure your rights are protected
5. What to do if involved in a traffic accident, and how do you make a claim against an insurance company

Ok...sounds cool? One thing I need to let you know is some information is outdated, for example, the fixed deposit rates tables.

If you are lazy to read them now, download their pdf booklets and read later.
Download bankinginfo booklets
Download insuranceinfo booklets
(scroll down and find a link to download booklets)

Alrite, that's all for introduction, to know more, visit the site hehe . I hope all of you would learn to manage your pocket/hard-earned money well.

God bless!

Pascal

2009-01-31T11:29:00.006+08:00

I have 2 grand uncles staying together in Muar, they are twins.

They are quite old, in their 60s or 70s I think, They are not married, so no children as well.

They live in a small double storey house, there are a few old tables and chairs at the ground floor, I don’t know if you can call those “furniture”. The place is not dirty, but on the whole it just looks so dull and inanimate. And almost every time I see them, they are wearing short pants and singlet, and that really short hair that will spend you no time to tidy up, and only need the minimum hair shampoo i guess.

Well…They make furniture for a factory , they don’t earn a lot, but at the same time they make some investments. My mum and their boss say they are honest and thrifty people.

T o be honest, I have always thought they are those kind of people who are “not modern” and maybe, “outdated”: work, eat and sleep, continuing the routine without any entertainment, or maybe listening to radio, the only possible entertainment I can find in the house. And, uhm… and I don’t really think they go out with friends or socialize as well.

No, I don’t despise them. But I thank God a few years ago they got to know Christ, they started to attend church, they found the purpose and the hope of life. It was really thrilling to me. Just after a few years later (last year actually), one of my grand uncles passed away.

When I came home to Johor Bahru last week, for Chinese new year, my youngest sister showed me a keyboard.

“Where did you get this?” I asked.

“From ‘Chek Gong’(grand -uncle).” She said.

Mum was near and she heard this.

“Your ‘Chek Gong’ said he bought this some time ago when he earned some dividends from investment.” Mum added.

“What? A keyboard?”

That was my first reaction.

I couldn’t figure out how and why at that time, my grand-uncle would feel like playing a keyboard and bought one, based on what I understand of him. You know, they do not even have a fridge and television!

This makes me understand that every being always has a desire and need in the heart that sometimes cannot be seen from the appearance, life style or speech. It (the desire/need)might be properly kept, hidden, but sometimes it shows up too.

If you have studied physics before, you should have heard of a unit for pressure called “Pa”, pronounced Pascal. It was named after the physicist Blaise Pascal, and he was a Christian as well.

He said this:

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

~ Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

It again reminds me that there is also a need in every human’s life to seek God.

Have you ever ponder, the universe wasn’t formed by co-incidence. You, and everything on this earth, was uniquely created with a purpose, with the most amazing architecture?

Have you ever feel empty and alone? Eventhough you have a soulmate(boyfriend/girlfriend), lovely family members, and probably lots of friends.

Have you wondered if heaven and hell exist? Have you ever scared that they really exist...

People always love to ask me: What makes you so religious?

Honestly, I hate the word “religious”.

Jesus is not my “religion”. And I am not using “religion” to fill the emptiness in my life, to “give myself” hope in life.

Jesus and I are about a relationship. The emptiness in my life is filled, because I have a relationship with my Creator that loves me, just like the relationship you have with your boy/girlfriend, parents, siblings or best friends.

But the difference is, this is a need and relationship that cannot be replaced with any existing relationship in your life, it’s uniquely for God.

And, I don’t use “God” to give myself hope in life, but it was God who gave me hope in my life, for my future or any uncertainties in this journey.

If I have shared about Jesus to you in the past, or if I do that in the future, please do not misunderstand that I do this to “expand the size of Christianity” or to “increase the number of attendance in my church”.

I do this only because I love you, and I learnt how to love you because He loves and cares for you too, and He first loved me and showed me how to love.

And Christians, don’t judge the book by its cover.

Share the love around, because people need the Lord.

Pascal has always been right about the pressure in physics world.
And I am not ashamed to say he is also never wrong on choosing the God whom Pascal and I believe in. I hope all of you, my dear ones make the same choice one day.

God bless.

To all my friends: I have a new gf

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It has been many years, I've been looking for one.
She isn't really that attractive the first time I met her. I actually got to know her because of my housemate.
There was one time I needed some help and I approached her.
The first time I held her, it was great. As time goes by, I know she is the one I want.
I love her,
and I would like to introduce her to all my friends :

Can't wait to know who is she?

She is Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.0!

She is only RM20 at Lowyat and she has got really good ergonomic design! It fits my hand really well and it's comfortable to hold (of course it might be different for individuals). I have used many mice before (threw many away as well!) and I think I can say this is the best mouse I can find in the low budget range.
That's all, I am so happy to tell you about my new good friend (abbreviated to gf).

New Year Resolutions!

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Last Updated : 5th January 2009
Allrite it's gonna be tiring to start this long list, to share and to remind myself. Here we go!

My super long list of new year resolutions:
(To achieve in 1.5 years)

Computer Stuff:
Make easy game(s) with XNA game studio.
Make easy animation with Synfig.
Make easy animation with Blender.
Make easy flash.
Acquire reasonable skills in C# programming language.
Master Wax.
Master Gimp.
Master Microsoft Expression Design.
Master Microsoft Office - Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

Music Stuff:
Learn sight-reading
Play some scales on guitar
Play some scales on piano
Play some blues on harmonica
Acquire reasonable skills in in harmonica
Acquire reasonable skills in FL Studio/Cubase LE/any DAW
To improve in singing, breathing & pitching
To improve in recording techniques and knowledge
Make good music arrangement with keyboard
Write better songs (Target : 10 songs)

Study Stuff:
Graduate with at least CGPA 3.00
To have reasonable understanding on solar energy and electric circuit
To have excellent understanding of what I am studying in my major subjects

Miscellaneous:
To have better Cooking skills
Revamp and enrich CLC website to grade A
To have some savings
To get better with body (nerves and chest pain)
To memorize 66% of the book of Matthew
To speak and write better English
To have subscriber(s) in Youtube
To have consistent commitment in internet ministry
To write short script(s) with reasonable quality
To overcome more psychological obstacles
To be persistent updating the blog and have lots of visitors
Able to prepare and present good sermons

Top priorities:
To be super-persistent in building relationship with God through prayers
To be super-persistent in learning God's word and hearing His voice
To love God more, deep from my heart and do more things for Him
To beat my laziness, my sleepiness, my pride, my lust
To share the love of Christ with more people around me, especially my close ones
To try to build good relationships with family members

Shopping List/Wishlist (unlikely to fulfil ):
Audio interface (Tascam US-122L)
Large diaphragm condenser microphone (Samson C03)
Violin
Ukulele
Powerful computer
Electric guitar + Amp+ Effects
Keyboard (Arranger/Workstation)
CD albums of good music

Took me 3 days to finish this list.
Might be updating more...
Bye for now

Dang Dang Dang Dang!

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January 1st, year 2009 -
Quan's Random Stories was born.

:applause:
:whistle:

I created this site to share, to entertain and to educate.
I hope you enjoy this site as much as I do.
There are a few parts that are still under construction, but I just wanna write something before 1st of January ends hehe.

Anyway bookmark or favourite me and come back here to look around, to leave me a message.

I hope you like this place.

God bless.

And not too late to say blessed 2009!

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On Sunday, October 30, 1938, millions of radio listeners were shocked when radio news alerts announced the arrival of Martians (the "people" from the planet Mars). They panicked when they learned of the Martians' ferocious and seemingly unstoppable attack on Earth. Many ran out of their homes screaming while others packed up their cars and fled.

I am not bluffing. It was the The New York Times headlines. (check here)

Though what the radio listeners heard was a portion of Orson Welles' adaptation of the well-known book, War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, many of the listeners believed what they heard on the radio was real.

And I want to tell you, the power of media is astonishing. yes, ASTONISHING.

Maybe you would say, that was 70 years ago! Nowadays people are getting smarter.

Then you are wrong.

Unless you can explain to me how a novelist could make so many Christians worldwide giving up their religion using a made-up story, and a movie with that made-up story.

Yes we have Dan Brown and his Da Vinci's Code.

I can give you many more examples, but I'll stop here. What I want to tell you is: people who want to make money have used media to earn big money, people who want to gain fame, people who wants to convince public with their political ideology, people with all kind of purposes have used media to achieve success, but too bad, I think Christians are not in this category.
In fact, to me, gospel has no, or very little impact and success in using media to rival other influences. Of course, sometimes people are simply rejecting gospel contents, but I also believe there are many rejecting because our music, our animation, our comics, our videos, orr movies, or games are not attractive enough to send a message to the public.

This gives me a burden to start a studio to cater this need: to produce evangelistic resources that non-Christians like and think is good.

Because when you like something, that thing can give you influence very easily.

Now I shall explain this idea of mine in details:

There should be 5 departments in this studio:

1. Department of Softwares
This is the department mainlyfor programmers, and perhaps also graphic designers. The main duty of this department is to produce useful and effective educational softwares for students, especially students who are really weak academically. My youngest sister is my inspiration for this idea. She was in a big primary school with lots of students in a class, and she often is not a fast-learner. And the way the teacher teaches obviously doesn't make her feel interested in learning as well, and sometimes I was really surprised how weak she is in academic aspect that she couldn't understand even very simple things, especially in science, math and languages. This department has a task to produce softwares that can really help weak students by very detailed and illustrated instructions, or for students in general, to help them to understand what they are learning, rather than just helping them to score in examinations. For example, you could probably do differentiation and integration really fast and accurate, but you probably have no idea how the idea began, how it was derived and how it can be implemented in your daily lives to solve problems. The softwares to be produced are most probably not good enough for people to score straight As, but they would be really useful to make students understand and acquire the ability to argue and to think, something which is really lacking in exam-based education system. It also helps weak students to build a strong foundation before going into harder topics in school. And in between the tutorials, exercises or educational games, some short messages of gospel would appear, indirectly giving influence to the users.

2. Department of Games
It's called the department of games, and yes we are making games. Programmers are still important here, and besides that, graphics designers are also very important. We'll be creating free games for computer and cell phone. And when the game was advancing to another scene or level, or when the game is loading, short messages of gospel would appear.

3. Department of Music
We'll need musicians, audio engineers and composers for this one. We want to make free gospel music that are not so "gospel". We want to adopt music styles that are more familiar to the public, but with lyrics that speaks gospel.

4. Department of Animation
Animators and graphic designers, script writers and directors, we'll need you. With 2D and 3D animators, we can produce many Jesus-film-like animations to save many souls.
On the other hand, we can also produce non-gospel animations but with hidden evangelistic meaning or just a simple gospel message at the end of animation. Sometimes we do not really need stunning graphics, just look at how successful cartoons like spongebob, south park, Doraemon and Shin-chai are, or short video clips like Happy Tree Friends. However, too bad, most of those mentioned are always giving negative messages to the viewers.

5. Department of Creative Evangelism
We also want to use our creativity or resources to help other churches or organizations. Also, we can help them to design or create new strategy in evangelism. For example, for Campus Crusade of Christ, we could help them to restructure and redesign the 4SL booklet, e.g. there can be some blank pages at the beginning of the 4SL booklet for people to write or paste their own testimony. For Full Gospel Businessman fellowship, we can create "offline evangelistic radio station" CD for them, that they can play these CDs when they are driving a non-believer. What is the difference compared to a christian radio station? Firstly, there are many countries where Christian radio stations are not available. Secondly, christian radio stations are for Christians, while evangelistic radio station are for non-Christians.
It'd be great if the work of evangelism can expand bigger through co-operation like this.

Most important of all, we want to provide all these for FREE! Because we don't want to allow piracy problem to be a hindrance for these products to be widespread. Also, we want to produce them in mainly chinese before translating to other languages, as you know, there are really not many good resources in chinese, and we want to "attack" the market of the country with most population in this world - China!

I thought the motto/slogan for this studio can be "Broadcasting creativity" or maybe "Broadcasting gospel of creativity". Because we do not just want to tell (a few) people, but we want to broadcast them to (a lot of) people. And we want to take a different approach, something which is not typical "gospel" and "Christian" like what you have always seen which people quickly snub without taking a second look, but creative one that suits today's needs better.

Even if I can't start this as a full-time ministry in the future, I'll still try to work on this in my free time. I am now trying to learn all these things...programming, animation production, music production, composing songs and graphics design, and I wish I could produce a good product in each category before I graduate, so I'd be able to find sponsors for this ministry I am dreaming. Even all these things do not work out, I still hope with my little effort I will still be able to influence some people using Internet as a medium, or hopefully inspire others into doing the same things, or partnering with me.

Thank God for the advancement of freewares and open-source softwares, I can actually do all these without spending a dime on those popular big-name-softwares. :)

And you can support me in this by:
1. Prayer!
2. Money (if things ever work out in the future)
3. Your skills or your ideas/inspirations (Don't worry if you were not "born with talents", you don't need them, God gives them :) ask me for info on how you can learn these skills on your own!)
4. Your friends - you can introduce these products to them.

If you are interested to be part of this by supporting in any of the 4 means above, you can give me an email or text message and let me know :)

And it would be great to have comments, suggestions and feedback from you as well.

All glory to God! :)

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